Why read Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking?

Book cover of Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking: Three Step-By-Step Guidebooks to Essential Woodworking Techniques

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As a tribute to Tage Frid who passed away in 2004, combined with the 30th anniversary of The Taunton Press, this three-volume slipcase set is the most complete, authoritative guide to woodworking for readers of all skill levels. The books in the slipcase include: ""Book 1: Joinery,"" ""Book 2: Shaping,…

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2 authors picked Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Scott Wynn

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This is on many people’s lists—and for good reason: an essential book, it will give you a solid foundation on which to build your knowledge and skill set, most specially if you are just starting out, though there is much to learn here for even the more experienced woodworker. Frid’s training contains the practical knowledge of centuries of woodworking passed through an apprenticeship system as it began its transition into the 21st Century, adapting power tools, new materials, and ways of working that will give you the information that will let you build almost anything. He wrote 2 more…

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Jeff Miller

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This is a 3 volume set (also available in a single-volume compilation), by one of the first widely-known teachers in America of woodworking skills, furniture building skills, and furniture design. Trained formally in Denmark, Frid came to the US, and taught at the School of the American Craftsman, the Rochester Institute of Technology, and then at the Rhode Island School of Design. He was a contributing editor for Fine Woodworking Magazine, and also taught classes around the country. Not only do these books teach traditional woodworking skills combining the use of hand tools and machines, but the mid-century modern designs…

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